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Lincoln County, Georgia

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
10historic places
—earliest paper
1796formed
7,690pop. 2020
12cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 10 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1976. Most listings are in or near Lincolnton, Danburg.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Georgia is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Lincoln titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

4 of 10 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

10 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Amity SchoolLincolntonBuilding1993
Chennault HouseDanburgBuilding1976
Double Branches Historic DistrictLincolntonDistrict1993
Lamar-Blanchard HouseLincolntonBuilding1982
Lincoln County CourthouseLincolntonBuilding1980
Lincolnton Historic DistrictLincolntonDistrict1993
Lincolnton Presbyterian Church and CemeteryLincolntonBuilding1982
Matthews HouseDanburgBuilding1976
Simmons-Cullars HouseLincolntonDistrict1999
Woodlawn Historic DistrictLincolntonDistrict1993

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Lincoln was formed in 1796 (1796-02-20) from Wilkes.

LINCOLN created from WILKES.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Lincoln County population from 1800 to 2020 (Census historical series).

9,7397,1474,55518001840188019101920196020002020
1800182018401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
4,7666,4585,8955,4666,4127,1569,7397,0426,4625,9066,7168,3487,690

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

12 cemeteries and 3 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 12 of 12 listed
NameLatLon
Anthonys Chapel Cemetery33.80008-82.56878
Beulah Baptist Cemetery33.93358-82.62793
Ebenezer Baptist Cemetery33.85684-82.51611
Estes Cemetery33.79173-82.50346
Goshen Cemetery33.86056-82.51582
Greenwood Cemetery33.68099-82.50312
Hepzibah Cemetery33.74154-82.53603
Hogan Cemetery33.74029-82.42301
Lincolnton Cemetery33.78956-82.4804
Midway Cemetery33.87456-82.5518
Saint Pauls Methodist Church Cemetery33.71971-82.47996
Smith Chapel Cemetery33.86485-82.44988
Historical populated places — 3 of 3
NameLatLon
Agnes33.74596-82.42846
Salem33.6918-82.41429
White Rock33.75652-82.44068

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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